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Tutorial stamp adigraf by Sabri

Hello everyone! My name is Sabrina and appassionatissima of all that is art manual ... for me it is therapeutic! I work mainly with pearls and beads for jewelry and card packaging, cards and photographs for "scrapbooking" my memories (scrapbooking). When Laura asked me to participate as Guest Star this portal, I was happy! Here's what I want to show a technique to manufacture the stamps in the house with a material called adigraf.

adigraf The rubber mat is a 3 mm high., Very soft green color that is recorded with the called gouges, chisels (usually there's only one handle with replaceable bits of different sizes).

Adigraf and gouges can be found in some well-stocked paint stores that sell products or for the Fine Arts
Where to sell these can also buy the roller for inking the adigraf once recorded .. . I do not use it since my ink stamps adigraf ink as the other, colliding with the ink pads. In case you want to use acrylic paint him lie down on the stamp with the brush, taking care to leave only a thin layer to prevent E. coli and create spots on stamped.
So what we need to make the stamp?
Sheet adigraf
Gouges Engraving Cutter

soft pencil (I use a B5) if you want to "trace" the drawing, a pen but if you draw freehand directly to the stamp.
Caution: remember that since this is a stamp image will be reversed, so the numbers should be made in writing or otherwise (I did an entire alphabet all upside down ... SIGH!)
I chose a subject that can be used on greeting card or Christmas pages!

must draw the subject on the plate adigraf. At first you do not choose designs with details too small because we need a little 'training' before they can reproduce! If you wish to "trace" a need to revise the original design with a soft pencil, turn the paper sull'Adigraf and go all the space behind so that the design is transferred. But if you draw directly on the plate you can use a normal pen (note that you can then easily remove). The design and engraving will be done on the smoother the plate (no possibility of confusion, a party is very smooth and has a whole thumb).
I drew first on a sheet in order to delete, edit ... and then moved through the technique of pencil I mentioned above.

With regular scissors, cut roughly around the plate design, so we can work better.

Now you can start engraving, bearing in mind that you are going to affect white space (in practice, it creates the negative, you remove the spaces not drawn). It must affect the edges with a chisel more closed (Measure 1).

With gouges will be more open to affect the innermost parts of the drawing, those in which white space is greater. I never use a chisel bigger if I work on the stamps, but I always use a few times the size 2 and 3. Do not carve too deep or the base is cut and then it becomes less compact stamp.
When you are "emptied" the stamp cut the outline with a sharp knife, leaving a few mm. adigraf to be able to pick up cleanly.

Once you can do a test print and go off again rubber if you find that you left some "hump" too. Of course, the handmade stamp will not be perfect (especially the first) and will have those "flaws" but make it original and unique!

To facilitate the paste can be stamped on a rigid support is easy to grip.